This story appears in the March 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Courtenay-Latimer had rediscovered the coelacanth, which was assumed to have died out at the end of the Cretaceous ...

With the aid of the intracranial joint and other cranial muscles, the coelacanth usually swallows its prey whole. Its teeth are designed not so much to grab or slice fish but to prevent them from ...

This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The young victim lies in a shallow grave in a vacant lot strewn with trash. It’s the Friday before Easter here in ...

The ancient coelacanth, a lobe-finned fish, is a “living fossil” in every sense of the term. ... [+] Biologists believe this supreme survivor has undergone little change in 400 million years.

Paleontologists recently discovered a new extinct coelacanth species that highlights the role that Earth’s plate tectonics plays in evolution. Also called Latimeria, coelacanths are a deep-sea fish ...

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Staff at the National Museum of Kenya display a coelacanth caught in 2001 A "fossil" fish can live for an impressively long time - perhaps for up to a century, according to a new study.

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals.

Oceanxplorers, a new documentary series from National Geographic, invites us to dive into the deep and discover the secrets of the oceans like never before. Premiering on August 18, 2024 ...

More than 70 percent of Earth’s surface is covered by ocean. But more than 80 percent of that marine realm is unknown. A crew aboard one of the world’s most advanced research vessels is ...

On Tuesday, National Geographic announced the evolution of its digital footprint with several additions to its social media channels, including YouTube. National Geographic has added a fourth ...